Britain's communications regulator has opened an investigation into whether Meta failed to carry out required safety assessments before introducing Instagram Instants, a feature that allows users to share photos and videos that disappear after being viewed.
Hackers used a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence agent to attack some of South Korea’s largest banks and steal personal information belonging to 68,000 people, according to The Wall Street Journal, in an intrusion now under investigation by the country’s national police.
We have all done it. You are at an airport waiting for a flight. Your train journey is going to take another two hours. You have just checked into a hotel, or perhaps you are sitting in a café trying to get some work done. Your mobile signal isn't great, so you look at the available networks and see exactly what you need: free Wi-Fi.
A gambling operator in Croatia offered its casino customers a shortcut. Instead of producing an identity card on every visit, players could use an RFID chip or their fingerprints to identify themselves more quickly. For 34,933 players, consent to biometric processing was recorded. But when Croatia’s Personal Data Protection Agency examined how that system actually worked, it found that the operator was collecting more than it said it was collecting.
Italy’s privacy regulator has fined IQVIA Solutions Italy €7 million over a database containing the health information of roughly 1 million patients, finding that data the company regarded as anonymous could, in fact, be traced back to individuals.
More than 1,000 organizations in Wales already work under the Wales Accord on the Sharing of Personal Information. What changes now is the footing beneath that work. WASPI has launched its UK GDPR Code of Conduct for Information Sharing Protocols, an Article 40 Code designed to give organizations a consistent framework for sharing personal information across health, education, social care, safeguarding, and other public services.
TikTok has agreed to pay a £12.7 million fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office in 2023 after the company dropped two appeals against the UK’s data protection regulator, bringing one long-running children’s privacy case to an end and allowing another to move forward.. TikTok has separately abandoned its challenge to an information notice seeking documents and details about how it processes teenagers’ personal information through its recommender systems. The first case reaches back to TikTok’s handling of children under 13, who were not supposed to be on the platform in the first place.
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